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  What Is Identity Theft And How To Prevent It?

  05.02.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Becoming a victim of identity theft is never something you would want to happen to you, especially as it can end up depriving you of your life’s earnings and even put you into deep debt without it in any way being a result of your own actions.
  The frustrating thing about identity theft is that you […]

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  Why you should not send ‘remove me’ requests to spammers

  03.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Have you ever wondered why your spam emails keep on increasing although you regularly click the ‘remove me’ links in spam you receive?
  Consider this.
  When an email is sent out by spammers to your email address, they do not really have any idea if it is valid or not. Your email address could just have been […]

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  The definition of spam is getting stricter

  03.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  For sometime, it was the common impression that just because a bulk email is not commercially beneficial to the sender, then the bulk email is not considered spam.
  For those who still subscribe to that definition, think again. The content or resulting benefits of the bulk email are not relevant. These days, it is not […]

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  What is spam?

  03.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) or Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE) is generally known as spam. Spam is junk e-mail, sent indiscriminately for the purpose of selling goods or services (often of a dubious nature) and can also include phishing attempts and virus infections.
  How spam operates
  There are many ways that e-mail addresses can be obtained online. However, […]

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